The Supreme Court today made it clear that no action shall be taken pursuant to the draft National Register of Citizens (NRC)..A Bench of Justices Ranjan Gogoi and Rohinton Nariman passed an order to that effect after hearing Attorney General for India KK Venugopal, NRC co-ordinator for Assam, Prateek Hajela, and Additional Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the State of Assam..The draft NRC was submitted to the court today. The total number of persons who have been included in the said complete Draft NRC is 2,89,83,677 leaving a total of 40,70,707 as ineligible for inclusion. Out of the aforesaid 40,70,707 names, 37,59,630 names were rejected and 2,48,077 names were kept on hold..The Court noted the same in its order but made it clear that the same is a draft and cannot be the basis for action by any authority..“In this regard the Court would like to observe that what has been published is only the Complete Draft NRC which naturally being a draft cannot be the basis of any action by any authority.”.The Court also noted in its order that the Complete Draft NRC as published would be available for inspection up to August 7. Thereafter, starting from August 8, 2018, a process of acquainting the concerned persons with the process of filing of claims and/or objections would be started so that no inconvenience is caused..Subsequently, the receipt of claims and objections will start on August 30 and end on September 28..The Attorney General informed the Court that the Government of India is in the process of preparing modalities in the form of a standard operating procedure so as to deal with different dimensions of the exercise of consideration of claims and/or objections so as to ensure that the process that will eventually be adopted is a fair process. The AG told the Court that the same will be placed before the Court by mid-August..The Court allowed the same and listed the matter for hearing on August 16 at 2 pm.
The Supreme Court today made it clear that no action shall be taken pursuant to the draft National Register of Citizens (NRC)..A Bench of Justices Ranjan Gogoi and Rohinton Nariman passed an order to that effect after hearing Attorney General for India KK Venugopal, NRC co-ordinator for Assam, Prateek Hajela, and Additional Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the State of Assam..The draft NRC was submitted to the court today. The total number of persons who have been included in the said complete Draft NRC is 2,89,83,677 leaving a total of 40,70,707 as ineligible for inclusion. Out of the aforesaid 40,70,707 names, 37,59,630 names were rejected and 2,48,077 names were kept on hold..The Court noted the same in its order but made it clear that the same is a draft and cannot be the basis for action by any authority..“In this regard the Court would like to observe that what has been published is only the Complete Draft NRC which naturally being a draft cannot be the basis of any action by any authority.”.The Court also noted in its order that the Complete Draft NRC as published would be available for inspection up to August 7. Thereafter, starting from August 8, 2018, a process of acquainting the concerned persons with the process of filing of claims and/or objections would be started so that no inconvenience is caused..Subsequently, the receipt of claims and objections will start on August 30 and end on September 28..The Attorney General informed the Court that the Government of India is in the process of preparing modalities in the form of a standard operating procedure so as to deal with different dimensions of the exercise of consideration of claims and/or objections so as to ensure that the process that will eventually be adopted is a fair process. The AG told the Court that the same will be placed before the Court by mid-August..The Court allowed the same and listed the matter for hearing on August 16 at 2 pm.
